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Cumming takes up the role of senior business development manager and will be joined by senior engineer and technical consultant Michael Quinn and business support advisor Jade Nicol.

Hasabe Qamar and Russell Layden also join the team as technical assistants.

Managing director at Activ Technology Ian Gillespie said it is Activ's first 'geographic expansion' since it launched in 2010.

He said: "The opening is a huge tribute to all the team. We have achieved so much in a short period of time that we are now in a position to invest further in the growth of the business.

"While the north east of England is our heartland and the focus of a lot of our activity, we are ambitious and having built up a strong reputation in Scotland we wanted to establish a foothold in the country and we see Dumfries as the ideal location."